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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

Other companies processed and distributed milk, cream, and butter, and the surplus milk was used to make cheese.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

In 1979, Strong began the process of designing and building a new system, consisting of a deep well pumping station on the South Strong Road.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

… employ 15 people in raw material receiving and processing, pellet production, packaging and distribution.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - People

… elevator (sold his patents to Otis); designer of fishing reels (also see business leader below) Supply Belcher 1751-1836: American composer…

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

… meadows, wide intervale and good hunting and fishing that the region offered. The party canoed up the Kennebec River as far as Hallowell, which was…

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

… wheels, beans, sugar, spices, slabs of salt fish, molasses barrels and the pot belly stove. The store became a “nucleus for wholesale trade in…

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

… through on their way to the “up country” where fishing and hunting would be the draw. But those same folks coming from Boston or New York could…

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

… a venue for many people to learn about his scientific voyages and feel a part of the preparations and process of the trips. View this Exhibit

John Martin: Expert Observer - Pendleton & Ross stand, Bangor, 1864

… filled with dry goods groceries Rum hard ware fish salt &c." He noted that in November 1865, the building was raised five or six feet above the…

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

During this process, Maine's status within Massachusetts Bay remained in question, particularly as European expansion exacerbated tensions between…

Surry by the Bay - Sawmills of Cunningham Ridge

Processing lumber, Surry, ca. 1903Item Contributed bySurry Historical Society Parts of the mill were used to build another mill in Surry that…

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

Fox farms generally consisted of 200 foxes. Foxes were fed fish and horse meat. When it was time for the foxes to be skinned, they were skinned in…

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

In the process we may well learn that some of those two-rut roads through the woods lead, not nowhere, but to each other.

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

… a fulling and carding mill was constructed to process wool. Waterpower generated from the middle channel of the sluiceway supported these mills.

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

… sulphite pulp to Kraft pulp (a more efficient process of turning wood into pulp). That same year Eastern Corporation and Standard Packaging…

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

Here in Bath, the collective result of these processes is a deep, straight, five-mile shoreline ideally shaped for shipbuilding and easily reached by…

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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